hostile - Story 66683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burning rubber and gasoline clung to everything. Sarah kicked a tire, the metal cold and unyielding against her anger. Her garage, once her haven for tinkering with engines and rebuilding classic cars, had become a battleground. Now, her son, Ben, eighteen, raced, his obsession eclipsing her own.

He’d taken over everything. The tools, the space, the entire conversation revolving around horsepower and lap times. She’d tried to share, to guide, but now she was left with this bitter taste, this tightness around her chest.

He swaggered into the garage, grinning. “New record, Mom! Beat my personal best!”

She didn't meet his gaze. “Good for you.” She kicked the tire again, harder this time. The ache in her legs was a small compensation.

Emotion: hostile

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.67 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.56

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion hostile. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 hostile stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the hostile emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the hostile vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.592
`S`	0.387
`骂`	0.324
`est`	0.301
`aggravated`	0.295

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.457
`de`	-0.375
`H`	-0.289
`🤩`	-0.280
`la`	-0.273